CODE OF ETHICS 1985

By Kristine Ann F. Villanueva

What is Code of Ethics?

Written set of guidelines by an
organization to its worker and
management to its workers and
management to help them conduct their
actions in accordance with its primary
values and ethical standards
Outline the mission and values of
theorganization
How professionals are supposed to
approach problems

PURPOSE?
It articulates the main obligations of
engineers
Provides positive stimulus for ethical
conduct
Positive support to professionals
seeking to act ethically
Allows an engineer to take a stand
when under pressure to act
unethically

 It voices what it means to be a

member of a profession committed
to responsible conduct in promoting
the safety, health and welfare of the
public

 Formal basis for investigating

unethical conduct

Examples

Consequences
Increase of public cynicism about the
profession.
Stifle dissent within the profession
Restriction of honest moral
effort on the part of individual
engineers to preserve the image
of the profession

 Essential in sustaining the trust of

the public

Section 1. The chemical engineer

shall be guided in all his relations
by the highest standards of honor
and integrity and shall act with
fairness and impartiality to all.

Section 2.The chemical engineer

shall uphold at all times the dignity
of
the
chemical
engineering
profession and shall protect it from
misrepresentation.

Section 3. The chemical engineer

shall avoid being associated with
any enterprise which is of
questionable character or is
contrary to law or public welfare.

Section 4.The chemical engineer

shall express a professional opinion
only when he is adequately informed
of the facts related there to and the
purposes for which the opinion is
asked.

Section 5. The chemical engineer

shall not issue statements,
criticism or arguments on matters
of public concern which are inspired
or paid for by private interests,
unless he indicates in whose behalf
he is making the statement.

Section 6. The chemical engineer

shall not
indulge
in
self-laudatory
advertisement
nor
make
exaggerated, untrue, or misleading
statements in media or any public
forum.

Section 7.The chemical engineer

shall be mindful of the safety and
convenience of the public at all times
and shall make every effort to
remedy or bring to the attention of
his
client
or
employer
any
dangerous defect in equipment or
structures or dangerous conditions
of operation which come to his
knowledge.

Section 8.The chemical engineer

shall consider it his professional
obligation to protect the interest of
his client, employer or any person
of responsibility and he shall act
accordingly as long as it does not
conflict with law, public policy, and
welfare.

Section 9.The chemical engineer

shall make known to his client or
employer all his other professional
obligations, financial interests, or
other considerations which might
restrict or interfere with his meeting
the legitimate expectations of his
client
or
employer
before
undertaking
an
engagement.

Section 10.The chemical engineer shall

not accept compensation, financial or
otherwise form more than one client or
employer who is in the same line of
business or has conflicting interest with
the others, without the consent of all
parties; he shall not accept compensation
directly or indirectly from parties dealing
with his client or employer except with the
consent of his client or employer.

Section 11.The chemical engineer

shall present clearly the
consequences or risk that will arise
if his professional judgement or work,
for which he is responsible, is
overruled.

Section 12.The chemical engineer

shall not hesitate to engage, or
advise his client or employer to
engage the services of other experts
or specialists on problems on which
his information or experience is
inadequate.

Section 13.The chemical engineer

shall regard as the property of his
client or employer any plan,
design, or other record which results
from the use of information which is
not common knowledge or public
property, but which information is
obtained from his client or employer.

Section 14.The chemical engineer

shall exchange general information
and experience with his fellow
chemical engineers, contribute to the
work of engineering societies and
schools, and cooperate in such other
endeavors as will enhance the
effectiveness of the chemical
engineering profession.

Section 15.The chemical engineer

shall encourage and provide
opportunity for the professional
development or advancement of
chemical engineers in his employ.

Section 16.The chemical engineer

shall recognize the view that
inadequate compensation for
professional services ten toward
inferior and unreliable work and shall
not accept compensation beneath
the generally accepted level of
professional fee.

Section 17.The chemical engineer

shall not compete with another
engineer unfairly, such as reducing
his usual professional charges for
work after having been informed of
the charges asked by others.

Section 18.The chemical engineer

shall not injure or attempt to injure
falsely or maliciously, directly or
indirectly,
the
professional
reputation, competence, capability,
prospects, or practice of another
professional.

Section 19.The chemical engineer

shall endeavor at all times to give
credit to those to whom credit is
properly due.

Section 20.The chemical engineer

shall not review the work of another
chemical engineer for the same
client or employer without the prior
knowledge and consent of such
engineer when the client or employer
relation of such chemical engineer
has already been terminated, prior
notice is sufficient.

Section 21. The chemical engineer

shall report any infraction of any
rules of professional conduct to the
Philippine Institute of Chemical
Engineers
(PICHE)
for
proper
appraisal and shall be ready to
testify, if necessary.